Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early April, after Hanoi announced that all free enterprise in the South had been abolished, the major exodus began. This belated effort to stamp out the vestiges of capitalism was a particular blow to the Chinese, who have long been among South Viet Nam's most thriving businessmen and black marketeers. In the enclave of Cholon, the Chinatown of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Chinese merchants had succeeded in cornering the trade in black-market rice, as well as such luxury goods as American bourbon, Algerian orange juice, German cameras and Tiger Balm from Hong Kong. Ideologically outraged...
...ruling heartened many American businessmen who have become increasingly annoyed at the eight-year-old OSHA'S unscheduled safety inspection visits. U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Richard Lesher called the decision a "blow for freedom," and the National Association of Manufacturers greeted it as "good news...
...little revue but a big Broadway show, cut down to cabaret size. Sure enough, he recalls, "after the first three nights, I told the cast they'd better get ready for something really big. In fact, we had trouble containing the show in a cabaret. This cast can blow the walls down even at the Longacre...
When he does venture out, he wears his one navy-blue suit. Often he walks to the elegant St. Francis Hotel, where he likes to sit in the ornate palm court and drink Scotch. "Whenever I had $10," he says, "I'd blow it on an expensive lunch...
...single and a walk off reliever Paul McOsker put Red Men on first and second with one out. Second baseman Paul Halas dropped Burke St. John's throw on the next grounder--one run, men on first and third. McOsker walked another, St. John booted a throw to blow a double play, and then IT happened...